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Ideal for psychology, food science and nutrition students at a variety of levels, this text provides a unique lifespan perspective to guide students through nutrition and cognitive performance. With contributions from leading academics and professionals, it is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the connection between psychology and nutrition.

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The contributors bring a wide range of methodologies to bear on the common problem of image-based object recognition.

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Joining two usually distinct areas of psychoanalytic treatment, this volume explores the psychoanalytic theory of object relations and its application to the study of marital and family interaction.

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As such, they represent some of the most original and exciting developments in the field of measurement today ranging from multidimensional measurement to graph theory and clustering techniques.

This volume presents original research concerned with the practice of measurement, and the theory of measurement.

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As such, they represent some of the most original and exciting developments in the field of measurement today ranging from multidimensional measurement to graph theory and clustering techniques.

This volume presents original research concerned with the practice of measurement, and the theory of measurement.

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A comprehensive introduction to one of the most common psychiatric disorders, a condition that results in intrusive, irrational thoughts and/or repetitive, illogical physical or mental actions.

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Running fifteen miles a day without being in training . . . taking two-hour showers and constantly changing clothes . . . working twelve hours a day, six days a week . . . these are obsessive-compulsive disorders. Now a world-renowned psychotherapist explains what they are, how they come about, and what can be done about them.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Uncertainty examines the intrapsychic features of the self as it presents within OCD compulsive doubting. Moshe Marcus and Steven Tuber suggest a phenomenological framework through which to consider the interplay between the cognitive as well as affective components required to make judgments.

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This work provides a comprehensive view of factors contributing to workplace traumas, and presents an incremental approach to developing effective clinical therapies. It suggests case-specific methods for preventing and curing many of the most debilitating workplace traumas.

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This book is among the best on stress and its organizational consequences. This new book integrates major theoretical approaches towards occupational stress with specific applications of stress management techniques.

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Our sense of smell, as Trygg Engen reminds us early in this definitive work, has been neglected as a research area.

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This book provides a systematic and scholarly examination of the major questions facing academics and practitioners working in the area of deviance and aging.

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An account of living with anxiety, coupled with reportage on the science of anxiety disorders.

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John Ralston Saul explains how our different qualities give us the intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals. He argues, however, that when certain human qualities are worshipped in isolation they become weaknesses, even forces of destruction or self-destruction.

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On My Own sends the refreshingly positive, and supportive, message that being alone is not a sign of failure but can be an empowering and liberating experience.

Society can be cruel in its assessment of a woman alone, regarding her as defective or deserving of pity.

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A scholarly study of the elements which make up the process of problem solving.

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On the Edge and Keeping on the Edge contains the first ten lectures in a series sponsored by the University of Georgia's Torrance Center for Creative Studies. The first ten lectures were by scholars who had taken us to the edge, and kept us on the edge.

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On the Edge and Keeping on the Edge contains the first ten lectures in a series sponsored by the University of Georgia's Torrance Center for Creative Studies. The first ten lectures were by scholars who had taken us to the edge, and kept us on the edge.

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An examination of the fundamental role cybernetics played in the birth of cognitive science and the light this sheds on current controversies.

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With testimonials from people who have lived through Near-Death Experiences as well as research and opinions from a multidisciplinary panel of prestigious scholars, On the Other Side of Life offers a balanced look at these most mysterious experiences and the science and theology behind them.

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Contrary to those observers who attribute group violence to irrationality, primordial instinct, or complex psychology, this work uncovers a systematic exploitation of self-interest in the underpinnings of group identification and collective violence. It also uses examples from Mafia vendettas to ethnic violence in places such as Bosnia and Rwanda.